servisair's 'european brothers'(poles) must be more than a little bit worried.

with all this doom and gloom going on at servisair,it would'nt happen to be wage negotiation time? hhmmmm.........now there's a thought!

Pegasus
 

Guys, while you are slating circusair, you forgot to add that Pegasus destered them for Swissport ......

Maybe airlines like TK who cleared off to Swissport have realised that circusair was not that bad after all .......

CSA must one of Stansted's longest serving airlines , sad that they are going , anyone know what year they started ?

No slating Servisair at all :bored:

The point Sat1 was making was the airlines are pulling their STN routes not dumping S/Air for S/Port & Aviance.

Pegasus if you hadnt noticed dont seem to be happy with anyone first S/Air then moved onto S/Port but now there handled by Aviance:eek:

Rumour has it that Cpyrus Airlines have given Swissport 30 days notice, and with Swissport dumping two bins full of bags in as many days on the run to the undercroft from the A/craft no wonder!:yuk:

Yes CSA started in 1995, so over 12 years of continuous service. It is sad that they are going, probably a combination of the company restructuring as they were encountering financial difficulties (LGW was dropped a long while back), and over-capacity in general to Prague. When it started I believe it was the only route to Prague outside of LHR and MAN, now Prague is served by multiple airlines from most regions.

Titan + Jet 2 charter wth a mix of 757/737/ba146,and the occasional Air Med A321 will again be operating Mondays Fridays and quite a few other odd days STN/LDE/STN on behalf of Tangney Tours,I believe that for 2008 thet will actually start in February and go through to November.
They always seem to get a jetbridge for those ops,it must be something due to the number of wheelchair pax on those flights.

Sam,

We do not always get a Jetbridge for these ops as BAA Stand Planning can screw up occasionally. Not that the LDE destination would be a BIG clue and that these ops might have a lot of WCHRs !!!!

The Jetbridges are a disgrace anyway with rubbish everywhere even when they do work. Current QSM shown to the AOC had an outage of unplanned maintainance of around 25% against a predicted 2% for August. Bear in mind they count in the 2 stands on Sat 1 that dont have Jetbridges to bump up the Jetbridge servicablity percentage, I kid you not!

However we a promised 5 NEW Jetbridges for 2008, but note they say NEW not BRAND NEW !!

As for SO8 , wait and see, I havent had any confirmation of contracts signed yet and I should know !

As for SO8 , wait and see, I havent had any confirmation of contracts signed yet and I should know !
please do tell.

Sterling steps in as Ryanair pulls out
 

Danish low-cost airline STERLING is to start five new routes from Malmö Airport, including flights to Stansted, 3 months after Ryanair announced it was withdrawing from the southern Swedish airport.
Services from Malmö to Stansted, Nice, Florence, Barcelona and Alicante will be launched by Sterling, starting on 10th March next year. The announcement means that Malmö Sturup will maintain its links to the British capital, Spain's second city and the south of France after Ryanair's routes to London, Barcelona and Marseilles are axed next month.
Sterling already operates a large number of flights from Copenhagen Kastrup Airport and has recently been expanding rapidly from Stockholm, Gothenburg and Oslo.

What is your source for Stansted, I am aware that the flights will operate to Gatwick, as that is where Sterling's London operation currently is, please correct be if I'm wrong.

SAM-EMA

SAM EMA
Im not going to give the website as I will get
told off again by the MODS, try this,
uk airport news with some www's and a com.

I hope this info is ok with the MODS :ouch:

Sterling to STN ?
 

I would be supprised if they operated MMX-STN. I believe it is planned for LGW. The Sterling press release does not say STN only London.

Can anyone shed any light on a couple of random Eos movements, that have been showing up on the departures board?

Firstly was yesterday at around 2245, Eos to Boston. I saw all the pax in the fast track queue, and lets just say that (dressed in their tracksuits and many of them late-teens to early-twenties) they certainly didn't look like a business charter. Maybe some kind of sporting occasion, I really don't know?!

And then again today there was an Eos flight showing to Minneapolis.

Might be tied into the US Basketball match played yesterday in London (think one of the teams involved was Boston Celtics).

the other team was Minnesota Timberwolves

An airbridge update for Stansted
 

Yes, the airbridges on Satellite 1 are long past their sell-by-dates and maintenance has been a little sparse, but there will be 10 new airbridges on satellite 1 early next year. Even A10 will be replaced despite it being a relatively new one. All brand spanking new from Thyssen - 5 in March and 5 in May I believe. :ok:. And all the Sat 2 bridges are getting a full re-paint internally along with some new carpets over the next few weeks.

Flying Pigs
 

Hey Feroman, does Ryanair fly to the planet your living on? 'cos clearly you aint on planet earth. 10 bridges!! all brand new!!
On a more realistic note....does anyone know who has got the cape verdi contract? people are suggesting its servisair.

Cape Verde
 

Cape Verde with Serviceair twice a week :D

do you know who is operating the cape verde service?

thanks

TACV, the main airline of the Cape Verde Islands

Well it was 5, it's now 10. Watch this space - you heard it here first

American Airlines
 

I hear that AA are more than happy with bookings and are looking at two more destinations from STN late 2008 :ok:

Anyone know anymore on this ? I guess one of the routes must be Chicago and poss Dallas, I have also noticed that STN is not yet on the AA route map, It shows London then offers LHR and LGW.

Glad to hear AA think the route is doing well. Where did you read this? I read on the AA website that they said they were pleased with the response and that a lot of bookings were leaving LHR, returning STN and vice versa. My family are booked to fly the route in March along with 9 of our friends. I have been promoting the route rather well so far!!! LOL.

MAD is another conspicuous omission ex-STN. Any rumours? (Come on, Ryanair...!)

Eos to start flights from Newark to Stansted
 

October 18, 2007 — In celebration of its second anniversary today, Eos Airlines, whose “Uncrowded” travel experience has captured the loyalty of premium trans-Atlantic travelers, announced it will begin flights between New York’s JFK and Paris, and Newark and London Stansted Airports in 2008. With a recent infusion of $50 million in investment capital, Eos also announced it will secure its seventh and eighth Boeing 757 aircraft in order to introduce as many as four new routes in 2008.

Well, I've just transited through Stansted twice in the past week and the whole process was painless and professional. No delays, decent check in staff, efficient security.

From arrival at gate from LEI to getting into bed at a hotel about 10 miles away was about an hour. It was a first experience of Stansted and it was enjoyable compared to a lot of other places.

Cheers.

:}

Aviance given Eastern Airways contract for the STN - MAN route starting 29 OCT. :rolleyes:

New route Stansted - Eilat
 

Any truth in the rumour that a great big piece of internal pannelling on a jetway fell down last Friday 19 Oct ,just as the pax were about to start boarding the Jet 2 LS2001 to Lourdes ?
How long will it take till somebody gets killed on these dreadfull ,dangerous,
dirty,deadly.degenerate jetways ?
Dont blame the low cost carriers.
:=

Ovda
 

TOM are also doing a Sunday flight from 04/11 as TOM8231

Any idea when BAA will put the Summer charters onto the website:confused:

Summer 2008
 

Summer schedule 2008 should be posted next week

Thats good news, are we to expect anything other than the "norm"
would like to see some longhaul charters, over the pond would be nice,
well maybe when summer 2009 comes about :zzz:

Thomson are adding a range of "fly cruise" and "cruise and stay" holidays from Stansted to La Romana on the Dominican Republic using Thomsonfly for Winter 2008/9. A strange move to use Thomsonfly when you consider they are pulling the plug on their Stansted base.

Not that strange when First Choice will have a STN base and I take it the two airlines will be merged by then?

AA
 

Anyone know what the loads are like for the First AA from/to JFK
tomorrow ?

There is a press release on the BAA website regarding the new AA STN - JFK flight. The inbound AA124 landed 10 minutes early this morning so off to a good start. I will be flying this route in March, it just seems such a long way away.

TACV to Sal (SID)
 

How did the inaugural go? On time? Loads?

GSM
 

Last flight from STN tomorrow.